Aviation and air quality

CERC provides consultancy services on aviation emissions and their impact on air quality to national and local government, airport operators and consultancies.

We use our Emissions Inventory Toolkit EMIT to compile comprehensive emissions inventories for local and international airports, to provide a baseline for emissions analysis and/or air quality modelling for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

We carry out air quality modelling using our model ADMS-Airport, which is based on ADMS-Urban with the addition of aircraft sources, which are modelled as jets.

We have analysed emissions and modelled air quality at many airports including large airports such as London Heathrow, Amsterdam Schiphol and Singapore Changi, and a number of smaller airports. Under contract from the UK Department for Transport (DfT), CERC’s Director David Carruthers was a technical expert on the air quality modelling panel for the Project for the Sustainable Development of Heathrow, for which CERC was commissioned to conduct the air quality modelling. More recently we have, under contract from DfT, contributed to the Local Air Quality Subgroup of ICAO CAEP’s Model and Databases Group. See Research for more details.